The #FreeJacobZuma campaign condemns the intensification of the harassment and intimidation of our supporters, and of democratic, freedom loving South Africans, in general
29 August 2021
The #FreeJacobZuma campaign is appalled by the increasing harassment and intimidation of courageous South Africans who have not allowed themselves to be silenced, and who continued to call for the immediate release of President Jacob Zuma from his illegal political imprisonment.
We have warned that there is a deliberate and concerted effort to intimidate and silence those South Africans who are not prepared to accept the gross injustice that is being committed against President Zuma, and who furthermore call for economic justice through the implementation of Radical Economic Transformation (RET), which is the official economic policy program of the ANC. In the process the state law enforcement agencies, especially the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), are being abused to repress freedom of speech and democracy in general. Such are the actions of a repressive State, that is fast becoming a dictatorship.
The #FreeJacobZuma campaign has warned that those of us who care about democracy, freedom of speech, and the protection of our hard fought for civil liberties, must be under no illusion about the intolerant and vicious tsunami of repressive undemocratic action that we are now increasingly up against.
This correctness of this warning was yesterday sadly confirmed when the Directorate For Priority Crime Investigation (the so-called HAWKS), issued a statement that they have arrested two South African citizens, owner in KwaZulu-Natal and the other in Gauteng, who are respectively 35 and 36 year old, whom they tarnished with the propaganda term, ‘suspects’.